THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Soviet Court Denies Stern Appeal

NEW YORK (JTA) — Dr.
Mikhail Stern, the Vinnitsa
doctor sentenced to eight
years in prison on bribery
• charges, lost his appeal
Wednesday in the Ukrain-
ian Supreme Court in Kiev,
the National Conference on
Soviet Jewry reported.
- Dr. Stern's son, August,
who is in the United States
under NCSJ auspices to
seek help for his father, said
"My._ father is innocent. He
is
punished because of
m
thers' and my desire
– to emigrate to Israel. The.
Soviet government is trying
to make an example of my
father because he is a much
' – beloved and respected physi-
cian. I appeal to all Ameri-
cans to ask Soviet authori-
ties to return my father to
"- me."
Stanley H. Lowell, NCSJ
chairman, said "All Ameri-
cans must be shocked at this
decision. Dr. Stern is inno-
cent. Perhaps the Russians
believe that Americans no
longer
care. We will show
oft
them how wrong they are.
The National Conference on
Soviet Jewry will mobilize
- all its resources, including
the national medical com-
mittee, on his behalf. We
have cabled Mrs. Stern to
-- tell her we are with her on
this tragic day."
The NCSJ said there
was a possibility that Dr.
– Stern could appeal the
conviction to a higher
court in Moscow but that
prospects for a reversal
were poor.
Meanwhile, prosecutors
– have been chosen for the
trial of Mark Nashpitz and
Boris Tsitlionok, the Mos-
cow Jewish activists, and
there is a possibility that

AFL-CIO Upset
• Over ILO's Move
to Admit PLO

HARRIMAN, N.Y., (JTA)
— An imminent confronta-
tion in the International
Labor Organization, a
United Nations agency com-
'Is" posed of government, man-
agement and labor, over the
admission of the Palestine
Liberation Organization is
▪ causing concern in the
American labor movement.
It has prompted the AFL-
,.. CIO to question whether it
should continue its relation-
' ship with the ILO, according
to a report by Michael D.
Bolkof the AFL-CIO in-
ter
nal affairs depart-
me
Boggs charged that the
..-ILO, which is supposed to
uphold the principles of
progressive labor policies
and trade unionism, is
being undermined by its
"new majority," a coali-
tion of Arab and Soviet-
bloc forces.
Uzi Bloch, representative
of Histadrut, told the con-
ference of the intense ef-
forts of Histadrut to
IP
strengthen bonds with labor
movements in Asia, Africa,
Latin America and Europe.
o- He reported on "the dangers
of erosion of friendship with
Japan, Latin America and
other countries, as a result
o, of the increasing weight of
Arab oil and propaganda."
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the trial will be an open one
to which foreign corre-
spondents may be admitted,
the NCSJ reported.
Nashpitz and Tsitlionok
were among seven demon-
strators who were arrested
outside the Lenin Library in
Moscow on Feb. 24 for pro-
testing the denial of exit
visas.
It also was reported that
Jewish activists in Moscow
have accused the Soviet au-
thorities of trying to achieve
a "final solution" of the Jew-
ish emigration problem by
issuing visas to selected ac-
tivists but denying them to
others who are regularly
harassed, threatened with
prosecution or actually ar-
rested and held for trial on
unspecified or dubious
charges.
The accusation was
made by a group of 15 Jew-
ish activists who met with
Western journalists in
Moscow, according to the
NCSJ. They indicated that
the strategy apparently is
aimed at splitting the
hard-core activists and
intimidating other Jews
from seeking exit visas.
In New York, a team of
American professors,
headed by Telford Taylor of
Columbia University, has
sought unsuccessfully to
induce the Soviet authori-
ties to reopen the cases of
about 20 political prisoners,
most of them Jews, on the
grounds that due process

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
was not observed at their Figures released here by the
trials.
Central Bureau of Statistics
The American group, act- showed that the rate of in-
ing on behalf of Israeli rela-
has slowed down. A
tives of the prisoners, was flation
1.5 percent rise in the cost-
permitted to file petitions in of-living
index was recorded
Moscow last June in an ef- for the month of February.
fort to gain new trials and
While economists said
to have conditions of the that this was in line with an
prisoners in labor camps expected 18 percent infla-
eased.
tion rate for 1975, it was less
The petitions were de- than expected in view of last
nied.
November's devaluation of
Taylor served as a pros-
the Israel pound and other
ecutor at the Nuremberg economic austerity mea-
war-crimes trials of Nazi sures which sent prices
leaders in 1945-46.
soaring.
The legal briefs prepared
by the Americans charged:
• Defendants were de-
nied the right to choose
Successor Due
their own counsel, and
for Kissinger?
state-appointed lawyers
were assigned for the de-
WASHINGTON (ZINS)
fense on the ground that
special security clearance • — The conviction is growing
in local political circles that
was required in political
Dr. Henry Kissinger's term
cases.
as secretary of state is rap-
• Although most defend-
idly drawing to a close. Ac-
ants were charged with hav-
cording to these observers,
ing distributed anti-Soviet
Kissinger will resign even if
literature, no evidence was
he achieves a success on his
presented in open court to
present Middle East mis-
show that the material was
sion.
anti-Soviet.
Three possible successors
The NCSJ reported,
are prominently mentioned:
meanwhile, that Jon Roten-
former Defense Secretary
berg has succeeded June Sil-
Melvin Laird, former Gover-
ver Rogel as the NCSJ rep-
nor of Pennsylvania Wil-
resentative in Washington,
liam Scranton, and former
D.C. Ms. Rogel has joined
Attorney
General Elliot
the American Israel Public
Richardson. According to
Affairs Committee. Roten-
the experts, Richardson is
berg served in the Massa-
the front running candidate.
chusetts Legislature until
December, 1974.

Woman Resumes Sport
After Munich Massacre

NEW YORK — An Israeli
woman member of th'e
Olympic team who saw 10 of
her teammates and her
coach slaughtered by terror-
ists at the 1972 Olympic
Games in Munich has come
out of retirement and is now
training in California for
the 1976 Games.
Esther Roth, who was eli-
minated in the 100-meter
dash semi-finals, and then
withdrew from the hurdles
event after the massacre, is
now training with world-
class hurdler Tommie Lee
White
Her husband Peter, a for-
mer gymnast, talked her
into resuming her career,
according to a recent New
York Time-s article.
"Munich was a shock
for me," said Esther.
"Especially for me, be-
cause the coach who had
coached me for six years
was also my teacher.

Tel Aviv to Have
New Bus Terminal

TEL AVIV — Construc-
tion has begun at Kikar Lev-
insky of a massive 2.5 mil-
lion sq. ft. new central bus
station and shopping center.
The new terminal will
accommodate 20,000 buses
daily on 150 urban and in-
ter-city lines, serving 600,-
000 passengers each day. It
will also contain the na-
tion's largest shopping cen-
ter under one roof, includ-
ing almost 1,000 stores.

Israel Inflation
Stable at 18%

"I had great respect for
him. He was the man who
raised me athletically.
When I think about Mu-
nich, I get a very bad feel-
ing, but I must compete to
go on."
Disillusionment has set
in, however, because of
Munich. "I had thought ev-
erything was peaceful and
true in sports, with no poli-
tics," she said.
"I cannot understand how
all the other countries are so
weak when politics and
murder become involved."

Dead Sea Found
as Ideal Relief
for Psoriasis

TEL AVIV — Israel's
Dead Sea has been termed
the ideal location for the
treatment of psoriasis.
According to members of
a delegation of 13 leading
dermatologists from the
United States, the Dead Sea
area can ease psoriasis, the
chronic disfiguring disabil-
ity suffered by about 2 per-
cent of the world's popula-
tion.
Because of its elevation,
1,300 feet below sea level,
the lowest point on the
earth's surface, sun rays
reaching the area are fil-
tered through the atmos-
phere. Exposure to long
waved ultra-violet sun rays
over long periods has a posi-
tive effect on clearing the
skin of psoriasis sufferers,
Dr. Domonkos stated.

Friday, March 28, 1975 37

Seminary Tackles Abortion Question

NEW YORK—That Juda-
ism makes a distinction be-
tween a mother's right to
abortion and the mainte-
nance of the life of a viable
fetus was the consensus of
rabbinical and medical
speakers at the conference
on "Abortion and Fetal Re-
search" held March 18 at the
Jewish Theological Semi-
nary.
There was general agree-
ment that the mother had
the right to abortion, but
the fetus outside of the
womb had a right to life if
viable.

Israel Tourism Off

JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
There were 29,600 tourists
in Israel during February of
this year, reports the Cen-
tral Statistical Bureau.
During the first two months
of 1975 Israel attracted 54,-
600 tourists as compared
with 65,500 in the same time
period a year ago.

Speakers included Rabbi
David Feldman, of New
York, author of "Birth Con-
trol and Jewish Law;" Dr.
Harold M. Nitowsky, pro-
fessor of pediatrics and ge-
netics at the Albert Einstein
College of Medicine; and
Professor Seymour Seigel,
of the Jewish Theological
Seminary, chairman of the
committee on Jewish law
and standards of the Rab-
binical Assembly.

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